| Cuba is an island that has many places to
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| | when the opening of the paths for the
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| explore during your holidays and
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| | communication between Havana and Matanzas
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| thousands of marvels to see and to
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| | was officially settled.
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| discover. One of this wonders is the
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| | This impressive step that is 18
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| Bacunayagua Bridge, built in the borders
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| | kilometers away to the west of the city
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| of Havana Province and Matanzas.
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| | of Matanzas and it establishes the
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| Matanzas had the opportunity to
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| | territorial limit with the county of
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| inaugurate in the first year of the
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| | Havana. To the north of the bridge, the
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| Revolution the longest and highest bridge
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| | immense sea is sighted; the channel and
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| in Cuba until that moment. Its
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| | the outlet of what should be the bed of a
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| construction is historically a crisscross
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| | mighty river in a remote time, and to the
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| with the Via Blanca (the highway that
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| | south, the extensive and exuberant Valley
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| connects Havana City and Varadero), begun
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| | of Yumurí.
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| by Carlos Prío Socarrás´ government,
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| | The importance of that crossing for the
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| with the purpose of shortening the
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| | Via Blanca resides in that is the nearest
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| distance between Matanzas and Havana. A
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| | and direct connection, for the beautiful
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| total of 41 columns sustains the bridge
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| | landscape of the Cuban north coast,
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| of Bacunayagua, those that were in its
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| | between the Tunnel of the capital of the
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| moment the most slender in the world made
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| | country and the City Spa of Varadero.
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| of concrete.
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| | The beauty of the environment of
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| In 1957 the works of construction of the
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| | Bacunayagua, favored by the execution of
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| bridge began, classified during that time
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| | that advanced project, alternates with
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| as a colossal work, not only for its
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| | multitude of headlands, hillsides and
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| extension but for the height on an
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| | mangroves, natural refuge of great
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| immense cliff. Its columns possess a pile
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| | ornithological importance where 74
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| of 22.50 meters each one, with a width of
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| | species of birds cohabit with 16 of
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| a meter for 1.60 meters, and some reach
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| | reptiles and eight of amphibians. In the
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| the 42 meters high.
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| | ecosystem of swamp of this area vegetable
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| On its bolsters there are 6 beams that
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| | formations appear as the heath coastal
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| weigh each one 47 tons, and that they
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| | xeroformo and the forest semideciduo,
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| were fused in the same place the bridge
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| | besides a rich and varied fauna with high
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| was being built. In total the bridge has
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| | percent of endemism.
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| a height 103 meters, with a longitude 314
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| | The magnitude and splendid image of the
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| meters and a width of 17. On September26,
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| | place can be appreciated perfectly from
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| 1959, Fidel Castro Ruz and Celia Sanchez
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| | the Mirador, located in an elevation to
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| inspected the works, the crossing for the
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| | the end west of the wonderful work. This
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| splendid bridge constituted the moment in
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| | is a unique invitation you must take
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| that the road was inaugurated; although
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| | during your holidays in the island.
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| it did not go up to October of that year,
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